(Clearwisdom.net) During a recent October weekend we held a small cultivation experience sharing conference. Almost thirty practitioners attended the conference, and we started by sending forth righteous thoughts to clean up the environment. Practitioners gave many down-to-earth and heart-rendering speeches, and many practitioners were moved to tears. With Teacher strengthening the energy field, everyone was immersed in an environment of peace and harmony.
One older lady, in her seventies, who used to be illiterate, said that at the beginning of her cultivation she spent over a month learning the characters on the first page of Zhuan Falun. Now she can read all the Dafa materials, even though there are still a few unfamiliar words. She talked about her experience when clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa to people. She said that she always talked to people with an open heart, taking into account the person's ability to accept what they heard, and said that the effect was quite good. For example, every time she went out she took along several truth-clarifying brochures. Before talking about Falun Gong, she would first find out what attachments or concerns the person was dealing with. She then clarified the truth based on her evaluation of the situation. This way she could clear away misconceptions in the person's mind and save the person.
She once went to live with her eldest son. Her daughter-in-law picked up some truth-clarifying materials at the front door and she and her husband tore the materials into pieces in front of her. Although her son had already resigned his membership from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations, he didn't fully understand the truth about Falun Dafa.
The older lady felt very sad. She talked to her daughter-in-law and told her what Falun Gong was truly about. She explained that all her illnesses, including rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, and chronic inflammation of the kidney tissues, were all cured. She said to her daughter-in-law, "My being healthy has also relieved the financial burden on you. Besides, after I started cultivating in Dafa our family became very harmonious. How wonderful it is to live in such an environment!" Then, based on her own experience, she talked about the crimes that the CCP has committed against the Chinese people during the various movements, such as the "Land Reform," "Three Evils," "Five Evils," and the "Cultural Revolution." She wanted to tell her daughter-in-law through these true events about the nature of the CCP and the facts about the so-called cultural revolution. She told her why Heaven would destroy the evil and why practitioners had to tell people to quit the CCP, and especially about the consequences of not quitting the CCP. She talked for over an hour and her daughter-in-law listened very carefully and asked whether all their relatives had already quit. The older lady told her daughter-in-law that everyone had quit. Then, the daughter-in-law said, "Then please also help me quit." The practitioner was very pleased, and continued to say, "One of your acquaintances is a policeman. Please bring him to me so that I can talk to him." The daughter-in-law was very happy to help. Within a couple of days she brought her police friend home and the practitioner was also able to persuade the policeman to quit the CCP.
Another practitioner recently resumed cultivation after several years. He was very excited when he spoke. He said he was a veteran practitioner who had obtained the Fa in 1995, but due to his fear of being persecuted he stopped practicing for several years after the persecution started in 1999. Recently, several practitioners got in touch with him. He felt Teacher's benevolence from the bottom of his heart. Fellow practitioners told him that Teacher had not abandoned him and that Teacher was still waiting for him. When he related this, his voice was all choked up. In the end he said, "Now I understand the importance of doing the three things. I will study the Fa well and do well the three things Teacher asks us to do. I shall follow Teacher to the end." When he said that, all the other practitioners were very happy for him.
When another practitioner, who was recently released from a forced labor camp, first looked within as to why he was arrested and detained, he realized that his complacency and ego had opened a loophole through which the evil took advantage of him. He talked about the support he received from fellow practitioners and acknowledged the importance of such support. He also saw the energy of all practitioners in the area elevating as one body. He found his own shortcomings and was determined to catch up.
Many practitioners spoke. One told of her experience distributing the Shen Yun Performing Arts show DVDs. She took DVDs with her whenever she went on errands, and gave them to people, but she didn't know whether the people actually watched them. She once asked someone who had received a DVD from her two months earlier. That person said, "Not only did I watch it, I also gave it to several other people to watch. They all said it was wonderful." The practitioner said that people are awakening. It is very beneficial when practitioners distribute Shen Yun DVDs.
This Fa Conference was very successful. Every practitioner who participated in the conference benefited from it to varying degrees. This conference helped everyone in our district to elevate as one body.
October 9, 2009
